Government-wide Personnel Spending Tool
How do agency staffs compare?
A total $350 billion dollars in personnel compensation and benefits have been obligated government-wide. Figure 1 shows how government-wide personnel compensation and benefits spending is spread across all agencies, with the largest proportion of personnel spending dedicated to the Department of Defense and the Department of Agriculture.
Where are employees located?
The Government employs staff across the nation, with the largest number of employees located in the District of Columbia, California, Virginia, and Maryland. Over 370 thousand government employees are located in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia.
What do employees do?
Figure 3 shows how employees across the goverment make up each agency. Each agency’s workforce is further separated by occupational category, which groups related occupations by function.
How this analysis was conducted:
This analysis was conducted using federal agency obligations data reported to api.USAspending.gov, which is available to the public, and agency employment data made available by the Office of Personnel Management at FedScope.OPM.gov. Personnel obligations data was used to identify the relative cost of personnel compensation across the government and for each major agency. FedScope employment data was used to verify the personnel data reported to USAspending and evaluate the distribution of employees across the country. Fedscope data was also used to determine the composition of government employees, as well as for the agency specific staff profiles. R was used to join, evaluate, and create the visualizations in this analysis.
Analysis Resources:
[Fedscope.opm.gov]